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A setting of R.S. Thomas for soprano & guitar

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A Land – R. S. Thomas

Their souls are something smaller
than the mountain above them
And give them more trouble

They are not touched
either by the sun rising at morning
Or the sun setting at evening.

They are all in shadow
pale and winding themselves about each other,
inhibiting growth.  
Death lives in this village,
The ambulance plies back and fore,
And they look at it through the eternal Downpour of their tears.
 
Who was it found
truth’s pebble in the stripling river?
No one believed him.
The have hard hands that money adheres
to like the scales
of some
hideous disease, so that they grizzle
as it is picked off.

And the chapel crouches
A stone monster waiting to spring,
Waiting with the disinfectant of
its language
For the bodies rotting with
their unsaid prayers.
 
It is at such times
That they sing, not music
so much as the sound of a nation
rending itself, fierce with all the promise of a beauty that might have been theirs.

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from 2nd Book of Songs (with guitar), released November 4, 2022
Soprano: Susanna MacRae, Guitar: David Black

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David Braid London, UK

David Braid, composer of some 180+ works, including 3 symphonies, a viola concerto & 90+ pieces including guitar, has had his work performed in Europe and the Americas & broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Steve Reich said of his work ‘Morning’ (soprano/string qt) “Real honest stuff”.


Major UK performances include Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, King’s Place, Wilton’s Music Hall, 1901 Arts Club, etc. ... more

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